Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate Spanish (Higher Level) by Maria Fenton, Spanish teacher at The Institute of Education. Students will have found the topics of the paper appealing, relevant and reminiscent of material prepared for the oral. A very…
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate Agricultural Science (Higher Level) by Catriona Hendry, Agricultural Science teacher at The Institute of Education. Some questions’ barks were worse than their bite as students were met with novel information. Manageable questions on familiar…
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate Mandarin Chinese (Higher Level) by Yun Wu, Chinese teacher at The Institute of Education. A comprehensive paper embedded with the value that ‘language is use’. The paper called for a mixture of essential skills…
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate German (Higher Level) by Orla Ní Shúilleabháin, German teacher at The Institute of Education. This paper was relevant and stimulating as it prompts students to be versatile with familiar material. The paper was balanced…
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate Art, Visual Studies (Higher Level) by Declan Kelly, Art teacher at The Institute of Education. Questions synthesized literacy of artworks with their lived reality Fair and open-ended question posed no artificial barriers to displays…
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate Business (Higher Level) by Keith Hannigan, Business teacher at The Institute of Education. Students will recognise the majority of the questions from previous papers and be pleased with those questions that took a more…
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate History (Higher Level) by Stephen Tonge, History teacher at The Institute of Education. Students that focused purely on case studies will be challenged by trickier questions that needed them to add greater context. Those…
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate French (Higher Level) by Corinne Gavenda, French teacher at The Institute of Education. Students will be happy with a paper that reflects many of the topics they would have prepared throughout their examination preparations. …
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate Biology (Higher Level) by Róisín Doyle, Biology teacher at The Institute of Education. Plenty of choice and well-phrased questions made this paper very student-friendly Students who put in the hard work with past papers…
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate Irish Paper 2 (Higher Level) by Clare Grealy, Irish teacher at The Institute of Education. An accessible paper with clear and manageable phraseology Shows the importance of familiarity with past papers Students will be delighted…
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate Irish Paper 1 (Higher Level) by Clare Grealy, Irish teacher at The Institute of Education. Students will have a sense of déjà vu as topics from the 2023 deferred paper reappear. Many will feel deflated…
Reaction to 2024 Leaving Certificate Mathematics Paper 2 (Ordinary Level) by Jean Kelly, Mathematics teacher at The Institute of Education. This paper asked on every element of the course set for Paper 2, even the rarely seen Sets. Questions were…